Again?
As I mentioned before, I was just once referred to as a boffin. I took that as a badge of honour, and it put me on a high for the rest of the day.
If it bothers you, just don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.
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The most recent purchase was a quad core Ryzen5 late 2017 I think. It is more than capable of everything I want to do with it.
The other next {cough} newest is a small fanless dual core one I do my general scratching around on - like commentarding here - that was about 2014 I think.
My laptop is older still. Dunno when I got that.
One manager called me in the middle of the night for an urgent call out, but I was only half awake and fell asleep again - in fact I don't actually remember the call at all. The following day I arrived at work and there was pandemonium. When nobody turned up the customer didn't complain to the manager (who was of course not contactable) but instead complained to the real boss. Manager was nowhere to be found, and I was questioned but not sanctioned in any way. I fairly soon moved on to a much better job, so don't know how things eventually settled down.
I have a somewhat jaundiced view of unit tests. They are only of any use if you are testing the right things - and discovering what the right things are, is the hard part.
This is particularly relevant with sound generation software i.e. soft-synths. One that I was using some years back fell foul of this. Extensive unit tests were set up prior to a major upgrade. After the upgrade the sound of just one of the patches I'd designed changed noticeably. They never did discover what had actually changed, and I had to rework the patch to fit.
Another one that didn't show up, they did fix but with the comment "We didn't think anyone would do that." If it can be done, sooner or later it will be done!
It's not compulsory, you know!
Over a {cough} few years, I've refined my setup so it behaves pretty much exactly as I want, and is as lightweight as possible. No doubt other's would hate it. Fine, they can (if they want to) set up theirs differently.
They can, of course, simply use what they are given... and moan about it.
I'll stick to dumb cars that do what I want when I want it - which consists of getting me from A to B safely in a reasonable time. During a journey I'll probably spend about 10% of the time concentrating on what I'm doing, and the other 90% assessing what everyone else on the road is doing.
I always drive with dipped headlights in daytime when driving down narrow country roads (and I do a lot of that round here). For a start, it gives approaching traffic an extra bit of warning, and also tends to make the (many) potholes and tree-root humps more visible.
I was never even momentarily tempted by prime - anything.That's on the rare occasions I actually use amazon and the like. Added to this have a number of credit cards with different banks and staggered expiry dates. For any site that's the remotest bit questionable (like amazon) I always use the card with the shortest expiry to limit my risk.